Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price. Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in
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Dark June for US generative AI: policy, Chinese models, OpenAI IPO delay
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June has been a dark month for the US generative AI industry, between hamfisted US policy and the transition to cheaper Chinese AI models. And then there is the delay of the OpenAI IPO. Is that the consensus? Do people disagree?
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Claude users: 1/3 expect AI to do most tasks; optimistic about pay
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This Econ Index is also the first to survey Claude users. Over 1/3 expect AI to be able to do most or nearly all of their work tasks within a year. But those who delegate the most work to AI are also the most optimistic about what it means for their pay and job security.
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Anthropic advances study of Claude’s economic impact with hourly data
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To keep pace with AI progress, we're advancing how we study Claude's economic impact. Hourly sampling and survey data show us how the cadences of life shape usage, what people produce with Claude, and how perceptions of AI's impact may be changing.
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Chinese sellers offer trillions of Claude tokens at 90% discount
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TIL chinese bros are selling trillions of Claude tokens at 90% discount
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AI concentration risk demands rebel alliance against power and wealth
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The biggest risk in AI is concentration: of power, capabilities and economic wealth. Who can doubt it with trillion dollar companies and government now already controlling a massive part of it? So we need more rebels and more rebel alliance like this one from @usv and friends.
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Anthropic’s Mythos forces DeepSeek into $7.4B fundraising
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Anthropic’s Mythos preview reportedly pushed DeepSeek into a $7.4B fundraising – because they could not compete with Mythos. Until now, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab had relied on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth instead of outside capital. The Information reports the
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GLM 5.2 disproves AI winter, suggests US leadership winter
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Not an AI winter at all GLM 5.2 proves this and instead this may be a self-inflicted US AI leadership winter @AndrewCurran_ @pierrepinna @Zai_org
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Prediction: Opensource AI mass adoption within less than 18 months
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Prediction Opensource AI mass adoption within less than 18 months
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Gary Marcus: AI scaling is capital misallocation, but early days
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“Gary Marcus … says that investments into scaling AI is the “greatest capital misallocation in history” which leaves everyone “on the hook”. However, he also says that it is still early days for the AI industry and further exploration into different model architectures and the